Date July 2017

HM Revenue and Customs statement on publication of The National Archives’ Information Management Assessment report.

The National Archives carried out an Information Management reassessment of HMRC in July 2016. The final report is published today.

HMRC was honest and transparent in its approach to this assessment, which recognises our ‘good practice’ in the way we protect our information, particularly the security of our customer records.

We acknowledge that the report has identified areas where we can improve further. We have published an action plan to address these, notably on information asset governance and information risk management.

Our action plan will ensure that we continue to manage and protect our information appropriately, which is critical to HMRC’s role of collecting the money that pays for the UK’s public services.

We look forward to ongoing collaboration with The National Archives so we continue to improve the way that we manage our information.

Mike Potter HMRC Chief Digital & Information Officer